GIZDODO (DODO GIZZARD) RECIPE - SISI YEMMIE

You see what I spend my weekends doing now? Cooking and filming for you and eating for you and getting fat for you...it's nothing but love. LOL. Last weekend I made Gizdodo: a lot of people have not heard about this Gizdodo phenomenon, the first time I got introduced to it was about 4 years ago when I was in Obodo oyinbo...it was served at a birthday party and I kept on asking for extra, extra, extra...no shame. It was so delicious-I've been hooked since then! Tweet

Forget all the senrenren-Gizdodo is basically gizzard, dodo and stew, but let's be fancy and call it Gizdodo and have a proper recipe for it! If you find that you learn better watching (I do) then click play on the video below to watch...spend your mb's well. Also SUBSCRIBE to my YouTube Channel -it's free!

INGREDIENTS

Tomatoes

Pepper (ata rodo, green pepper, red pepper)

Onions

Vegetable oil

Plantain

Gizzards,

Bullion, salt, thyme, curry

PREPARATION

Wash gizzards properly (I rarely eat gizzards I didn't prepare myself because I'm paranoid it wasn't washed properly, but I'm a hypocrite. Shebi I eat every other thing, how am I sure they were all properly cleaned? LOL). I typically wash my gizzard like 10 times, with warm water and some salt- there's a yellow lining in the gizzard, please take it off. Ayamakata.

Add gizzards to pot, season as you normally would - with salt, thyme, curry, onions, maggi and allow cook for about 40 minutes. I like to cook mine till the stock is almost dry so that all the juiciness enters the gizzard.

Cut ripe plantain into cubes (it doesn't have to be perfect cubes) and deep fry. The healthy option is to put it in the oven but it ain't dodo if it doesn't go into that big pot of oil.

Blend your tomatoes, onions and ata rodo. If you like you can add tatashe to add more colour to it. I love the flavour of those green chilli's so I used that. After blending I drained the water with a sieve. You can choose to boil the blended tomatoes (all we're trying to end up with is stew)

Cut your cooked gizzards into smaller pieces to it can match your cubed plantains, then fry till it's brown. Again, if you're team fitfam you can choose to grill instead of fry.

In the oil used to fry the gizzard, add some curry first, then thyme, then onions and chopped green pepper (your whole neighborhood will be wondering where the tantalizing aroma is coming from) add your tomato mixture and allow to fry.

When it is cooked, pour in your fried gizzards, add some of the stock (that's why I make sure my stock is properly thick to reduce the quantity). Taste for salt. Cover and allow the gizzard and stew to cook together for about 3 minutes.